Workshop: Cultural production in rural environments and small towns. 17 - 20 June 2010
Locations: Belfast and Ballykinler (small costal village 40min South of Belfast).
Overall question: How to bridge the gap between cultural/ art projects and the public?
This workshop will be a theoretical session based on the practical experiences of the participants.
The forum will debate the issue of cultural re-appropriation of spaces and the barriers between cultural/ artistic intervention and public inclusion, especially in rural areas, village contexts and culturally underresourced locations (cultural production at the fringes):
- ways of engagement, participation and collaboration (equal partner, expert, context pleaser)
- our individual and collective interests and expectations in public projects (from indicating or provoking alternatives to merely being comforting)
- our motives/ ideologies/ social interests and ambitions, why we engage with the public in creative ways (from social concern to artistic/ academic profiling)
- how can the relationship between cultural activist/ artist and community/ audience be analysed, fostered, empowered and equalized
- what is the balance between creative independence and social/ political commitment (from autonomous work to conspirator and social worker)
- how to create impulses, stimulate desire and instil a demand for cultural participation and creative DIY.
PARTICIPANTS:
RHYZOM partners
aaa , Paris- Anne Querrien
public works, London- Kathrin Boehm
cultural agencies, Istanbul , A. Seçil Yersel Kosova, Özge Açıkkol (Oda Projesi)
Agency, Sheffield
PS², Belfast - Fiona Woods, Ruth Morrow, Bryonie Reid, Peter Mutschler
Guests
Christoph Schaefer and Margit Czenki - Park Fiction, Hamburg
Anne- Marie Dillon artist, activist
Catherine Roberts artist/PS²
